Click to enlargeJ621/P690

The regular dies trial piece in aluminum. These were deliberately struck to show how easily aluminum coined and also for sale to collectors in cased sets several of which 3 were still intact as of 2014 including the former Garrett set and one in the Eric P. Newman collection. To view the set, click here.

Over a half dozen are known to exist including: To see all available images, click here.

1) Newcomer, unknown intermediaries, offered for $850 in Kosoff & Kreisberg's May 1950 edition of Numismatic Gallery Monthly, Bowers and Merena 1/95, Heritage 7/97 ANA, Superior 4/03, Heritage 1/07, M. Hagen still in set - PCGS65

2) R.A. Britton (H.G. Sampson, 2/1882), lot 956; T. Harrison Garrett; Garrett Collection; Johns Hopkins University (Bowers and Ruddy, 11/1979), lot 396; Superior 10/89 Heifetz sale, Heritage 1/13 FUN, Simpson, set now broken up - Heritage 8/21 ANA - PCGS64

3) Treasury Secretary Hugh McCulloch, McCulloch family, Newman-EPNNES, set now broken up Heritage 11/14 as NGC64, Legend Auctions 3/20 – PCGS64

4) Lohr, Empire Coin in 1961, Pittman-Akers 10/97 – ch proof

5) Hughes in 1979, Bourne – PCGS65

6) Denali-Heritage 1/11 FUN - PCGS64

7) B/M 11/07, Superior 11/08, B/M 6/10, Heritage 4/14, Heritage 9/14 – PCGS62 with a scratch from Liberty’s eye into her hair

8) Heritage 8/01 ANA as J617a, Rau-Heritage 4/18, Heritage 9/18 – PCGS62, with extensive corrosion, illustrated above, click on the thumbnail image to enlarge

One of these, probably #6, is ex Farouk, Spink 3/83 – ch proof

Photo courtesy of Heritage.